loosening
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]loosening
- present participle and gerund of loosen
Noun
[edit]loosening (plural loosenings)
- The act of making something looser.
- 2013, Michael Scott, Religious Language, page 169:
- Turning to metaphor, the loosenings involved in metaphorical interpretation tend not to be pure but to involve a change that results in the extension of the loosened concept overlapping with but not including all of the denotations of the pre-loosened concept.